Black Widow (or a Brown Recluse) - no way I'm sticking around for more than a couple shots from a distance. I'm a spider wimp, particularly the poisonous ones.

Nice work, as usual! I'll show these to my son later, he'll love them.

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Thanks. It was unnerving to say the least. It took me a good 20 minutes of shooting before I was willing to get anywhere close to 1:1...never did get any good shots that close as I was a little shaky. She moved around A LOT which is what made me most nervous.

Love 'em. I was just thinking the other day I would like to find one to shoot. It's got to be hard not to blow out some spots as shiny as they are.

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Thanks. I was happy to finally get this set of shots under my belt...as a insect lover I felt this was one critter I should have some good shots of.

For me it was impossible...I have a pretty good lighting setup and even if I underexposed them badly I'd get hotspots on her back. I actually cloned out the hotspots on her back in post on most of these (a few had angels that didn't get hotspots though).